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to obtain YV-QSL
that have been trying to get for many years without success.
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Postal Address : Winter Monges, P.O.Box. 1.116, Barquisimeto 3001-A,
Lara, Venezuela
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Dear
Enzio Gehrig : I must to inform that Dr. Simon Zaidman Krenter is not
Ecos del Torbes Director, He is ex-producer of " RECORDANDO A GOZAR
MUCHACHOS " programme that is not more in air but he verify many
reports for many dxers.

W.Monges-VEN

HC-DX-ML

Jun 00

Today
I received two, count them, two QSL's from Ecos del Torbes in Venezuela
for a dollar and a Spanish reception report dated 13 Dec 1999, 1 year
and 3 months after I sent the report. Funny thing is, the QSL cards have
dates of 10-05-2000 and 07-05-2000 which I believe are the dates they
probably filled them out and then they probably sat on a desk for all
this time. Cards were sent " postcard " style and arrived in
surprisingly good condition except for the usual US Post Office bar code
tapes stuck on both sides covering some of the info. The tapes pulled
off easily enough. I can't read the signature, but the signature line
reads " Saludos desde la " Ciudad de la Cordialidad "
" (Greetings from the Cordial City). Incidentally, this logging was
on the old Boatanchor that I was running at the time, a vintage
Hammarlund SP-600. (swl[ät]qth.net-ML via GGB)

P.Atchley-USA

direct to QIP

Feb 01

QSL
from Ecos del Torbes, in 366 days, no return postage. QSL came as
postcard, filling date is 18 May 2000, but sent much later, on 30 Jan
2001.

4940
Radio Amazonas, full data station logo card in 1 month for a Spanish
report, tape and mint stamps. Verification signer illegible. Nicolas
Briceno No. 18-266 Barinas 5201-A. He works at Radio Continental and is
DXer friendly. Send return postage and stickers from US radio stations.
He collects them.

E.Rausch-NJ-USA

Cumbre DX 141

Jun 97

4940,
R. Amazonas, two QSL cards and lengthy personal ltr from Francisco Jose
Ocana, 32 yrs. old. As Henry Lazarus pointed out re a QSL that he
recently rcvd from this one, FJO works for R. Continental, but is
authorized to QSL for Amazonas. Cards have -QSL, R. Amazonas, La Radio,
Amazonas, Venezuela- on front, classic LA style -thank you- veri
statement on back with name and address of the listener, also date, time
and fqy of reception. Also station stamp on back, and v/s of the cards
is Angel M. Perez, Director. By registered mail, in R. Amazonas envelope
with studio address of Av. Bolivar No. 4, Puerto Ayacucho, and fqys on
envelope shown as YVPY, 1130 MW and 151.4 FM (?). Handstamp in upper
left-hand corner of the envelope says -Radio Aficionado, Actividad de
Interes Nacional, Tarifa Postal Reducida.- A special postal rate for
DXers ? 17 mos. total for taped rpt; about 6 wks. after 3d followup, the
last one including a new tape and addressed to FJO at the address
originally supplied by Ed Rausch : Urb. 23 de Enero, Calle Nicolas
Briceno No. 18-266, Barinas 5201-A, Venezuela.

J.Berg-MA-USA

DX Window 073

Jun 97

4940,
R. Amazonas, full-data QSL card, very nice personal letter, business
cards, sticker for a medium wave station in Barinas, Venezuela and an
application form for and an information sheet on the -DIEXISTAS DE LA
AMISTAD INTERNATIONAL- CLUB 5 weeks after follow-up with new cassette
and stickers of U.S. stations and 1 year 4 months after original report.
The v/s, as earlier reported by Ed Rausch, is Francisco Jose Ocano, who
works at Radio Continental in Barinas, Venezuela and is an avid DXer.
Address, as earlier reported by Ed Rausch, is : Urb. 23 de Enero, Calle
Nicolas Briceno No. 18-266, Barinas 5201-A. I cannot be sure, but the
signature on the QSL card looks like that of Luis Jairo, the v/s
reported in the Latin American QSL web site, http:// www.algonet.se /
~mwm / dxing.html Francisco Jose Ocano is definitely authorized by Radio
Amazonas to verify reception reports for that station. He says in his
letter that he works for Radio Continental, which is the original
station (-Matriz- or -matrix-) of the Cadena Continental (Continental
Network) which includes Radio Amazonas. He says that for this reason and
also since he is a DXer, Radio Amazonas assigned him the responsibility
of answering all the reception reports which come to him. The QSL card
is a very nicely printed Radio Amazonas QSL card, and he even uses a
Radio Amazonas envelope. As previously mentioned by Ed Rausch, it is
good to send him a cassette of the eception, and he based his
verification on the cassette I sent him which he says was very clear and
included an ID of Radio Amazonas which could be well heard. As Ed Rausch
previously reported, he is an avid collector of stickers of U.S. radio
stations. Many thanks to Ed Rausch for opening this one up.

Radio
Amazonas, 4940 p/d light green card, stamped & signed by Angel M.
Perez (Director). Includes a nice form letter in SP/EG from Jorge Garcia
Rangel with info about the Amazonas state. 5 colorful stamps on
envelope. In about 3 months for $1, CD recording, & SP report.

A.Yoder-PA-USA

Cumbre DX-ML

Jun 04

4940 kHz,
Radio Amazonas, p/d date and freq only card, form letter in Spanish from
QSL Mgr Jorge Garcia Rangel with English info about Amazonas on the
back, mint Venezuelan stamps (I sent him American stamps) and postcard
of Caracas in 52 days for $3, SAE (used) and cassette tape. QSL was
signed by Angel M. Pérez, Director.

J.L.Sgrulletta-NY-USA

DXplorer-ML

Jun 04

R.
Amazonas, Puerto Ayacucho, 4940, partial data e-mail verie from Jorge
Garcia Rangel (QSL Manager) received in 40 months. He says new QSL cards
are being printed and will send one shortly. "Shortly" has
been probably used with some poetic licence judging from the response
time of 40 months.

YVIC Radio
Bonita 1520 QSL : A suprise e-mail QSL from Felix Ali Obelmejia.
Presidente-Director of YVIC Radio Bonita - La Guapa received today. The
e-mail adresse to the station is rbonita[ät]cantv.net.

R Caroni QSL : Just
received an e-mail QSL from César Gonzáez, Gte de
Produción y Programación at Radio Caroní, 740kHz,
Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela for a written follow-up report.
The e-mail address was cesargonzalez1284[ät]hotmail.com and
he has separately sent a map and tourist brochure of his
region.

R
Continental 4939.5 full data prepared card and personal letter in 2.5
months. Francisco Jose Ocana. vs is a member of Diexistas de la amistad
de Venezuela. He confirmed that Radio Amazona is using Radio Continental
xmtr. He collects stickers from radio stations. He works at R
Continental and was very friendly. For anybody who has unanswered
reports from R Continental. His personal address is : Apartado de
Correos 202 Barninas 5201

4761,
Radio Frontera (YVPP) verified by signing and stamping my
prepared card in 60 days for a follow-up report hand
delivered to the station by ace DX'er Don Moore during a
station visit. v/s is Modesto Marchena, Direccion General
who sent along his business card.

4860 Radio Maracaibo
QSL card with date and frequency for a 1982 report sent
to Winter Denyite Monges, P.O. Box 1.116, Barquisimeto
3001-A, Venezuela with one IRC in 65 days. Self-
addressed envelope used. He offers to get QSLs from Radio
Barquisimeto, Radio Lara, Radio Juventud, Radio Minuto,
Radio Fe y Alegria 850, Radio Universo and Ondas
Portenas, as well as Radio Maracaibo. He collects decals
and pennants from radio stations. Venezuelan QSL # 23 for
me.

Radio MATURIN, 5040
and 1.180 kHz. I send a reception reports via fax two
days ago addressed to Sr. Alonso Hurtado actual station
director in order to help 3 dxers from Australia, Finland
and U.S.A. and he inform me that he had received those
report before but the details are not enough to
demonstrate the report veracity. Personaly I think for
europeans and americam dxers is dificult to send a
detailed report if they do not spanish language. This
station had many years ago a qsl-card that was sent to
Bjorn Olsson in Sweden (?) and was published in a
COMNUNICATION in U.K., I have a pothocopy. But Sr. Alonso
Hurtado told me it does not exist any more and when he
answer correct report he do it with a QSL-Letter. I
recomend if you have a tape recording with a YV-report
get in touch with a dxers that speak spanish and can
translate for detailed report, specially mention the
station identification, names of speakers and operator,
and advertising. Format used by Henrik Klemetz and Rafael
Rodriguez in Santa Fe de Bog.

Radio
Tachira 4830 partial data letter with help of Venezuelan DX'er Winter
Monges.

G.D.Myers-FL-USA

Cumbre DX 269

Nov 99

Radio
Tachira, Venezuela 4830. Brief letter in around 6 weeks on Radio
Tachira letterhead for email report to the helpful Winter Monges at
venezuelanqslhelp[ät]yahoo.com. Winter requests US $ 5 postage with the
QSL, which was 850 whatevers from Venezuela, yahoo tells me that
equates to US $ 1.25.

R.Jary-SA-AUS

HCDX-ML

Jun 00

Radio
Tachira 4830 kHz, F/D verie letter in about 8 months from v/s
illigible. This was via Winter Monges Venezuelan QSL help site for a
e-mailed .wav file at $5US. Thanks again Winter for your assistance in
obtaining this and other hard to get Venezuelan QSLs...md

I
just got a verifictaion from Radio Valera this week. The address is
Radio Valera Avenida 10 No. 9-31 Valera 3101 Edo. Trujillo Venezuela the
v/s is Gladys Barroeta ps A short comment to Don Moore : I should say
that Radio Valera QSLs better than Torbes. The Valera v/s first wanted
me as a penpal, and now she sent a verification (with a little help from
Winter Monges). But Gladys Barroeta said she replies to all reports. I
have only sent 1 report and 1 f/up to Valera, while Torbes got 6 reports
before they sent a qsl :)

P.Willför-FIN

HCDX-ML

Mrz 98

Radio
Valera 4840 partial-data on -Certificado de Sintonia- form with business
cards in 60 ds. after a f/up and $ 1. v/s Gladys Barroeta + Mariela
Leal. This verie obtained with the help of a Venezuelan DXer who walked
my report through.

J.D.Stephens-AL-USA

Cumbre DX 184

Apr 98

I
forgot to mention that recent QSLs from Radio Valera, Radio
Barquisimeto, R. Lara, and R. Yaracuy were obtained with the help of
Venezuelan DXer Winter Monges. Winter asked me to tell everyone that he
is willing to help others obtain Venezuelan QSLs. He can be contacted at
winter[ät]cantv.net for more information.

J.D.Stephens-AL-USA

Cumbre DX 192

Mai 98

Radio
Valera, Venezuela, 4840 Khz...Must have been cleaning out the file
cabnets. I had completly forgotten about this. Think I sent the report
or a F/U in the early 90s. No Data " We are glad you could hear us
from so far away on shortwave.. We are no longer on shortwave
anymore" letter. VS Director Miguel Briceno. A nice surprise.

4940 Radio Yaracuy, San
Felipe, a QSL card to an ancient reception report, with
the help of a Venezuelan DXer, Mr. Winter Monges (whose
email is : winter[ät]cantv.net), for the cost of Rp ( $ 1).

M.Mäkeläinen-FIN

Cumbre DX
193

Jun 98

4940, R. Yaracuy,
full-data postcard in 204 days via DXer Winter Monges,
who visited the stn on my behalf. This took two tries, as
the first effort apparently got lost in the Venezuelan
postal system. I expect the " damages " to be $
5 for his services. A little expensive, but this closes
out a long sought after verification from this stn.

5000
YVTO, QSL-c (partial data), large letter and information
brochure about the service of Time Signal Station YVTO
and about used transmitters, v/s Cf. Gregorio Perez
Moreno, in 124 days for a taped report with one IRC,
Reply address was given as Estacion Transmisora YVTO,
Apartado Postal 6745, Caracas, Venezuela. E-mail address
was given as dhn@truevision.net (DHN = Direccion de
Hidrografia y Navegacion), telephone as (02) -484-46-58.